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Discovering prehistoric Velebit hillforts: aerial reconnaissance and ground truthing

The karstic nature of the Velebit Mountain with its unique micro morphological traits, impedes prehistoric cultural landscape research and makes it difficult to detect and study sites. Field surveys on Velebit has always yielded limited results on prehistoric landscape structures and this has has greatly hampered further progress. Therefore, intensive aerial reconnaissance was carried out in order to discover new and document already known prehistoric hillforts and enclosures. The application of aerial photography in archaeology is nothing new. Recently, aerial reconnaissance as a method of discovering and documenting sites rapidly developed in Croatia as well. At this poster the autor will present the results of how aerial photography and ground truthing was used for discovering sites and interpreting architectural elements such as terraces or ramparts at hillforts and enclosures in the Velebit Mountian.

Velebit, hillforts, aerial photography, ground truthing

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